software floating point host triplet?

[Simon Richter <Simon dot Richter at hogyros dot de>]

Hello,

I have the interesting and somewhat taunting task of providing a 
toolchain that assumes -msoft-float unless told otherwise. Obviously, 
this can be arranged with appropriate changes to the specs, however I'd 
like to integrate this in a way that would benefit everybody.

The general idea would be to have a common header file defining specs 
fragments for FP handling for the "arch does not have any FP at all" and 
the "arch has optional FP" cases, which can be included by the 
arch-specific headers (those archs with differing FP implementations, 
i.e. those that not only differentiate between "hard" and "soft" will 
still need special handling in their respective subdirs). For that to 
work, there should be a sane way to specify soft FP, either in the host 
triplet (but I haven't found a non-ugly way to do this; for example 
arm920t-linux-gcc could very well compile code for the arm926 core, 
although its name would probably suggest otherwise), or as a configure 
option (which would mean that there can be compilers with different 
defaults for the same host triplet), so I would be interested in 
opinions on how a user could indicate the request for soft fp as 
default. That is phase 1.

Phase 3 is profit.

   Simon

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